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What did everyone think of the DraftDay.com contest a couple weeks ago? Is it worth having another one with a free entrance fee? Just want to get some feedback before we commit to setting up and advertising another one! 🙂

it’s so close with the other 3 players that just in how much of a down grade to romo it’s not a good trade. Downgrade is about 60 ff points. Romo takes about 3 games to get that, and the fact he’s only hit 21 once. Reject

Thats actually a fairly decent trade IMO. You get a killer RB, bit of a downgrade at qb and so so on Holmes. I would say take it.
Combined Points per game for his players going to you is. 14.06
Combined Points per game for your players going to him is. 11.4

Looks like you were the winner of our Draft Day competition. Also, congrats to the second, third and fourth place guys, ryansk, CaptainK24 and cjstetzer, who also won a little prize money.

The amounts for the prizes may seem a little odd, but just so you know there are weekly competitions on the site for as low as $1 and $2, so you can get in there even with your $2.50 prize money. I recommend the two person games for $5 if you can find them, since you have pretty good odds of winning if you know what’s going on and it’s very similar to a head-to-head matchup in your regular fantasy football league. Anyways, good luck to anyone that continues using the site! (More …)

Steeve, as of now we don’t have plans to have another contest with DraftDay, but things could always change! Having one every week might be a bit much, but maybe we can have at least one more later in the year or something.

Last week one of the people from DraftDay.com contacted us with an offer for some free credits on their site in exchange for testing it out, so I figured I’d give it a shot. Draft Day is a weekly fantasy football game, where you pick a line-up (usually with a salary cap) that you expect to do the best for a given week. You can enter contests based on the entrance fee, which can be from free all the way to over $100 (for the big spenders out there!) You can also base your decision on the number of entrants in the competition. Do you want to go against 100 users with the chance to win a huge prize or increase your odds at winning and challenge just four users or something, but with the downside of winning less prize money?

Anyways, on to the good part! We got them to set up a private contest so that our readers can try out the site for free with a chance to win prize money. To enter and compete, go to their site (DraftDay.com) and create an account, then make sure NFL is selected at the top of the site. On the right side, select Private and you’ll see a game called “FFGeek”. Select that game and enter the password geeks2011. Once in the game, you will be prompted to select your optimal line-up with a $100,000 salary cap. After submitting your line-up, you sit back and wait until the games take place this weekend and see how your team does. So sign up for the site and enter our contest and see how you do against the FFGeeks!

Hey guys — this is Taylor from DraftDay. Thanks for the post, Brandon! We wanted to let everyone know that we are also running a promotion where you can win $1,000,000 by drafting a free team at DraftDay. So after you sign up for the FFGeek game, be sure to check out our “Perfect Lineup” promotion here: http://www.draftday.com/perfect-lineup/ Good luck!

Yeah the site is actually kind of addicting. Not sure if you’ve ever played online poker, but it’s kind of similar in that you can find “tournaments” based on the number of players, which affects the odds of you winning, but also the prize money. This week I’m in one contest for bigger money, but it has 10 people, so my odds aren’t awesome. I’m in another one though that’s just 2 people, so I got a pretty good chance of winning! It’s always fun to see how you can work a salary cap and the weekly match-ups to see the best line-up you can put together.

I played a lot of online poker in college and I went back to the site I used to use (pokerroom) probably about a year ago but they didn’t have cash games anymore….any recommendations for a new one??

But as for this site, I’ll definitely pay attention to it, I’m already looking forward to seeing how it plays out after the weekend and yeah, I can see myself getting addicted to it..the good kind of addiction though, like ice cream or ball park peanuts. 8^)

Should I do this trade in standard league: he gives me Stafford and Ingram, I give him Jahvid Best and Michael Bush? I currently have Matt Ryan and he’s been killing me. I also have Torain, DWilliams, Chris Johnson, McGahee, and Benson, so losing Best doesn’t kill me. Also, if I do the trade I’ll have to unload Ryan (I have Tebow on my bench) – who should I target for a trade? Could I get a WR2 for him? Thanks!

I like that trade. You have plenty of depth at RB to give up Best. As for Ryan, he won’t have a ton of trade value unless there’s a real Matty Ice believer in your league. If someone is starting Andy Dalton or Josh Freeman I guess they may want him, hah

I don’t think Cribbs adds much to the equation unless it’s a league that gives you big points for return yards. He’s around 40-50 yards a game. I’m sure you can find that kind of production on your free agent list.

Congrats to Joe M., our contest winner! Joe was one of four who correctly predicted that Kurt Warner would be week 9’s top fantasy QB, a pretty ballsy pick considering Warner’s five interceptions in week 8. Joe’s name was randomly selected from the four who picked Warner. Way to go, Joe. Your $50 NFL.com gift card is in the mail.